Kris Hoey
Title: Head Women's Cross Country Coach
Phone: 540-458-8679

Kris Hoey is in her seventh season as head women’s cross country and assistant track coach at Washington and Lee.

Under Hoey’s guidance, the Generals won their fifth-consecutive ODAC Championship in 2008, with seven runners being named all-conference and Hoey was named ODAC Coach of the Year.  The Generals went on to place 3rd in the NCAA South/Southeast Regional championship meet.  Four runners earned All-Region accolades and Jessica Shaw and Elizabeth Webb both qualified for the NCAA National Championship meet.  Hoey has had two athletes qualify for the NCAA National championships in each of the last three years.

In her 6 seasons at W&L Hoey’s teams have won 5 straight ODAC Championships, she has led runners to 7 NCAA qualifying performances, 15 All-Region honorees, 31 All-Conference award winners, 5 individual ODAC Cross Country Champions.  Hoey has also been named ODAC Coach of the Year five times.

During the track season Hoey leads the Generals women’s middle distance and distance runners.  During the 2009 T&F season her athletes won ever middle-distance and distance event at the ODAC Championship meet winning the 800m, Mile, 5,000m and the Distance Medley Relay), outdoors they repeated the same feet winning the 800m, 1500m and 5,000m and 3,000m steeplechase events. Hoey also guided Elizabeth Webb to an NCAA National qualifying performance in the Mile where she finished 9th

Hoey came to W&L from Rockbridge County High where she was the head boy’s cross country coach for one season. During that time she also served as a volunteer assistant track coach at VMI, working with the steeplechasers, middle distance and distance runners.

At Rockbridge County, Hoey led the Wildcats to a runner-up finish at the State Championship and guided John Crews to the individual district, region and state championship and a 13th-place finish at the 2003 Junior National Cross Country Championships.

Prior to arriving in the Shenandoah Valley, Hoey served as the interim head cross country and track and field coach at West Chester University during the 2001-02 season and was the assistant coach at WCU from 1998-01.

During her one season as head coach at WCU, she helped mentor one All-American, three Academic All-Americans, two national qualifiers, four conference champions and 22 all-conference athletes while helping her athletes set four new school records. Her men’s and women’s cross country teams were named to the National All-Academic team.

A 1998 graduate of West Chester with a bachelor of science in health and physical education, Hoey was a four-year letterwinner for both the cross country and track and field programs. She was twice named the cross country team MVP and served as team captain during her senior season when she earned All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference honors. In track and field, Hoey was twice named All-ECAC and garnered All-PSAC recognition as a senior.

Active in the sport, Hoey competed in the steeplechase at the 2001 USA Outdoor National T&F Championships and was the Olympic Development Steeplechase Champion at the 2001 Penn Relays, setting a meet record. In addition, Hoey placed 11th at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials. She is a USA Track and Field Level I and Level II Certified Coach.

Hoey is married to Head Track and Field Coach Nate Hoey. The couple recently welcomed their first child -- a daughter, Chase Maya, in April of 2007.


Brandon Uhl
Title: Assistant Coach
Phone: 540-458-8349

Brandon Uhl is in his second year as a full time assistant track & field coach at Washington and Lee. Uhl also served as a volunteer assistant for the Generals in the spring of 2004 and for the 2006-07 school year. During his short time at W&L, Uhl has been part of the staff that led the women’s team to its first-ever indoor conference championship. He has helped guide an athlete to All-America status in the pentathlon, a school record in the women’s indoor & outdoor long jump, and has guided numerous other student-athletes to all-conference awards.

Prior to coming back to W&L, Uhl served as the head cross country and track & field coach at College Misericordia from 2004-06, where he coached one NCAA All-American, two NCAA qualifiers, 40 all-conference student-athletes, five conference champions and guided athletes to 39 school records. He was named the 2004 and 2005 Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year.

Before volunteering with the Generals in the spring of 2004, Uhl served as a graduate assistant track & field coach at Frostburg State (Md.), earning a master of science degree in human performance. While at Frostburg, Uhl was responsible for the development of the men’s and women’s jumpers and assisting with the sprinters. In two seasons, he had an ECAC champion and a jumper provisionally qualify for NCAA’s. In all, he coached student-athletes to six All-ECAC awards and 10 All-Mason Dixon Conference awards.

Uhl is a  2001 graduate of Slippery Rock University, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in exercise science. While at SRU, Uhl was a school record holder and provisional national qualifier in the triple jump. He was an eight-time all-conference student-athlete, two-time conference champion and was named athlete of the year his senior season.

Uhl is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He also holds USATF Level II certification in the Jumps.

Uhl and his wife, Alice, reside in Fincastle, Va.